SATURDAY 11 AUGUST

A limited number of Closing Night film only are currently on sale via the MIFF Box Office in person, or by calling 9662 3722.

Sink into Saturday with a couple of very special events, including a guaranteed celebrity sighting in the form of MIFF’s own illustrious patron, Geoffrey Rush. And you never know who else you’ll see at the Coopers Festival Lounge @ The Forum… From 6pm, Zoe Randell (Grand Salvo) and Steve Hassett (Wagons) will be creating soulful sounds under the guise of luluc. At 8pm, Melbourne songsmith Paddy Mann gives you soulful odes to broken bones and sorrowful homes. And then from 10.30pm, The Tom Budge Good Time Band careens from urban bush ballads and land-locked sea shanties to the inky depths of broken-hearted blues.

Accelerator alumnus Ben Hackworth joins us at MIFF to introduce his enigmatic feature debut, Corroboree (tomorrow 3pm @ Greater Union); while filmmakers Rhys Graham, Natasha Gadd and Pip Campey present their local hip hop doco, Words from the City (tomorrow 7.20pm @ ACMI).

Highlights of today’s screening schedule include:

• The first film version of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be directed by a woman, Lady Chatterley (3pm @ Regent)
• A retro-futuristic zom-com starring a largely mute Billy Connolly as man’s best zombie, Fido (5pm @ RMIT Capitol)
• Hal Hartley’s follow-up to Henry Fool, completed a decade after the original film’s release, Fay Grim (9.40pm @ Regent)
• A French chiller that is sure to give you the biggest scare of the Festival, Ils ( 11.40pm @ RMIT Capitol)